In this volume are contained all the Statutes from the tenthe yere of King Henrie the Sixt, to the xiiii. Yere of our most gracious and soueraygne lady Queene Elysabeth; made and established in her Highness' Realme of Ireland. Anthony 6. Wood, in his Athen. Oxon. (vol. I., col. Notices the volume, stating that he had seen Sir Henry Sydney's Miscellanies of Irish Affairs; who had also caused the Statutes of Ireland to be first published in print. Sir Henry, who acted as Lord Justice or Lord Deputy of Ireland on four occasions during the period 1558-1578, published his work on the conclusion of his third Viceroyalty, and states in his Preface that he had caused the Justices of both Benches, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the niaster of the Rolls of Ireland, to confer together for the copying out and examining such Statutes as were then of record and not published which they did, and delivered the same perfectly written and examined. As this edition only commenced at the period when Vol. II. Of the present edition will begin, no further notice of it is necessary here.

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